tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57536554191311633182018-02-14T14:48:30.933-08:00Lost Womyn's SpaceThis purpose of this project is to commemorate and honor lost womyn's space--both ancient and modern. This can mean anything from lost women's colleges and schools, to lesbian bars and clubs. And everything sacred and profane in between.ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.comBlogger635125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-88456808677017923022018-01-12T17:51:00.001-08:002018-01-17T15:57:33.292-08:00Serene Bar<br /><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for Serene lesbian bar berlin" height="200" src="https://www.ellgeebe.com/data/56/39/u/berlin-serene-bar-17.jpg" width="198" /></div><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Serene Bar</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location:&nbsp;Schwiebusser Str. 2, 10965 Berlin, Germany</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened: ?</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Closed: 2015</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">According to DJ Ena Lind, in a 2017 article called </span><a href="http://www.electronicbeats.net/ena-lind-interview-berlin-queer-scene/"><span style="color: #e06666;">"Berlin's Lesbian Party Scene is Changing"</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">:</span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span>The last lesbian bar in Berlin, Serene Bar, closed two years ago.<br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">That's all she says about it. The rest of the article is all about "inclusive" queer women party crap that only gets dumped on women, and never on men. (If women like Lind had any historical knowledge, they would know that this is not "radical," edgy or new, but the way most so-called womyn's space has operated in a patriarchal context. Even in the nineteenth century, women's cafe's and the like were always pressured to include male escorts and the like, in a way that men's spaces were not.)</span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Anyway, here is the description of Serene Bar from </span><a href="https://www.ellgeebe.com/en/destinations/europe/germany/berlin/nightlife/serene-bar"><span style="color: #e06666;">ellgeeBe</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">:&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span>A lesbian institution near Tempelhoferfeld, Serene has a laid back atmosphere (you can dress down or dress up) and draws a middle-aged crowd. It's also one of the last outposts of 80s, New-Wave-Berlin style Stammdisco ("regulars' disco"), where the chart-hits come all evening and everybody knows your name.<br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">And from </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fSvQAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT375&amp;lpg=PT375&amp;dq=Serene+lesbian+bar+berlin&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=-z5g-kEJ75&amp;sig=lKKxF_EHv0-ykiGUPsHbusfZOz4&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjmv6Dx39PYAhXSk-AKHShUDToQ6AEITzAG#v=onepage&amp;q=Serene%20lesbian%20bar%20berlin&amp;f=false"><span style="color: #e06666;">The Rough Guide to Berlin</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">:&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Great lesbian hangout, particularly on Sat when the big dance floor gets packed. The bar is used by many special interest groups as a meeting point: table tennis, amateur photography and so on. The entrance is a little tucked away down an alley. Tues 6pm until late, Wed &amp; Thurs 8pm until late, Sat 10pm until late.&nbsp;</span><br /><br />A little depressing that the city where lesbian bars were once so strong almost 100 years ago now (!) [i.e. <a href="http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2011/06/lost-lesbian-bars-of-weimar-berlin.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">the Weimar era</span></a>] are extinct--just as they are nearly everywhere else.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-56743195060350862482017-06-13T12:20:00.000-07:002017-06-13T12:20:44.966-07:00Kimball Ladies Cafe<span style="color: #e06666;">Kimball Ladies Cafe</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: Perry Street, Davenport, Iowa, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: c. July 1910</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Not going to go into a big analysis here. Just a pleasant ad for a ladies cafe from the Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) from July 26, 1910.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OBW0WsYU8kw/WUA6rUJbT1I/AAAAAAAAGL0/j5LA_0lZQY45QpMoVTaBQrMxJxbU2LWvgCLcB/s1600/Kimball%2BCafe.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OBW0WsYU8kw/WUA6rUJbT1I/AAAAAAAAGL0/j5LA_0lZQY45QpMoVTaBQrMxJxbU2LWvgCLcB/s640/Kimball%2BCafe.jpeg" width="456" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kimball Ladies Cafe (1910)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-58489754024529165082017-06-09T05:03:00.005-07:002017-06-09T05:05:28.801-07:00Oxwood Inn<span style="color: #e06666;">Oxwood Inn</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lamag.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/06/oxwoodinn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.lamag.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/06/oxwoodinn.jpg" height="250" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oxford Inn</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: Oxnard Avenue, Van Nuys, California</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened: 1972</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Closed: 2017</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #444444;">Notice that this became a "queer catch-all bar" in its later years, so wasn't technically a lesbian bar at all any more. But even with that, it was the last lesbian bar in Los Angeles, even for all its "inclusivity." Which just goes to show that "inclusivity" as a drinking hole survival strategy doesn't work.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;">And notice that no one identified as &nbsp;lesbian is interviewed in this article.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">From </span><a href="http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/45-years-l-s-last-lesbian-bar-gone-good/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Los Angeles Magazine</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">:&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><br /><h1 class="h1 entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 15px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After 45 Years, L.A.’s Last Lesbian Bar Is Gone for Good</span></h1><h1 class="h1 entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 15px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">The Oxwood Inn shut its doors last weekend</h1><div class="meta" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 2.0625rem; margin-top: 0.3125rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="date" style="border-right-color: rgb(102 , 102 , 102); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-disqus-identifier="696641 http://www.lamag.com/?p=696641" href="http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/45-years-l-s-last-lesbian-bar-gone-good/#disqus_thread" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">0 Comments</a></span></div><div class="meta" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 2.0625rem; margin-top: 0.3125rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">The Oxwood Inn is missing its “O.” It’s hard to say how long it’s been gone, but no one bothered to replace it. The bar itself, a windowless dive sitting across from a Subway on a quiet stretch of Oxnard Avenue in Van Nuys, hasn’t had a facelift since it was purchased in 1972. Bought by Texas-born Betty “Tuck” Sutherland, it was the&nbsp;longest-running lesbian bar&nbsp;in the United States, as well as one of the only places transgender women could feel safe and welcome—until last weekend, when it closed its doors for good.</div><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" frameborder="0" height="720" id="instagram-embed-0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/cN-Cihp1jh/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=7&amp;wp=822#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A3054.9950000000003%7D" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-radius: 4px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 1px 12px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 2px);"></iframe><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #464646; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 1.3rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Dubbed “Menopause Manor” for its demographic—middle-aged women, many of who lived in the Valley—the Oxwood was Cheers for the lesbian working class. Two electronic darts games greeted visitors upon arrival, and a sparsely populated case offering “Bro Dart Accessories” was on the wall, looking like it hadn’t been opened since the 1980s. The place was a time warp—rarely was anyone preoccupied by their phones (at least not for noticeable lengths of time), and the old school décor included a framed portrait of Marlene Dietrich and a large art deco mirror hung on faux bois white walls. In short, it was a far cry from the purposefully decorated, dimly lit dive bars you’ll find in Los Feliz.</div><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-1" frameborder="0" height="720" id="instagram-embed-1" scrolling="no" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/trPvkSp1h5/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=7&amp;wp=822#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A3067.9950000000003%7D" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-radius: 4px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 1px 12px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 2px);"></iframe><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #464646; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 1.3rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="inline-ad inline-ad-1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1.5rem -2.125rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="module module-ad" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 300px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">As products of a century where being homosexual has been both illegal and celebrated, the Oxwood’s early, original clientele saw the bar as a gathering place more than an opportunity to get drunk or meet a new potential partner. (Those were just an added bonus.) When Sutherland died in&nbsp;2012, friends and family celebrated her legacy; since then, the bar had remained opened daily from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m., hosting karaoke on Thursdays, DJs on Fridays, and the trans-focused Club Shine on Saturdays. Sutherland’s former partner and longtime manager, Lynn Stadler, took over the lease after Sutherland’s death and kept its doors open despite the business costing her more than it was making her. As of last week, that cost was too high: In January of next year, the bar will be torn down and an apartment complex will going up in its place. But Stadler isn’t sad to see it go. “When something’s costing you that much money, you’re not nostalgic,” she says. “I’m glad. I’m putting over $400 a week of my own money into it, and all I have coming in is my social security.”</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Stadler’s stance seems to be unique, as Oxwood regulars are already feeling the loss. “It was a different breed,” former Oxwood bartender Marianne Basford says. “It was more like a sanctuary. It wasn’t some kind of hip bar scene. It was more like a secret clubhouse for women.”</div><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" frameborder="0" height="834" id="instagram-embed-2" scrolling="no" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/hkgrZcJ1hE/embed/captioned/?cr=1&amp;v=7&amp;wp=822#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A3086.0000000000005%7D" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-radius: 4px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 1px 12px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 2px);"></iframe><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #464646; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 1.3rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">What once began as a lesbian bar turned into a queer catch-all—the opposite of the swanky, trendy clubs of WeHo with bathroom attendants and celebrity guests. And now that Club Shine is no more, transgender patrons are feeling particularly affected (though rumor has it the club night&nbsp;will be relocating in the future). The event was&nbsp;“a little bit hit-or-miss” at first, according to Laura Espinoza-Lunden, a trans promoter and musician, but it eventually grew into a full-blown movement. By the end of the first year, “it took off,” she says. “It became a home for the community.” In the end, Club Shine is what kept the Oxwood afloat for the last decade. “We would have been bankrupt long before,” Stadler says.</div><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-3" frameborder="0" height="814" id="instagram-embed-3" scrolling="no" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/BKxAu9HhQwc/embed/captioned/?cr=1&amp;v=7&amp;wp=822#%7B%22ci%22%3A3%2C%22os%22%3A4690.995%7D" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-radius: 4px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 1px 12px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 2px);"></iframe><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #464646; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-size: 1.3rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Zackary Drucker, a trans woman and consulting producer on&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Transparent</em>, feels the Oxwood was unique in that it “created a space for queer trans women without the pressures of men entering the space as potential partners,” as she puts it. “It was the friendliest, most inclusive environment for trans women. I’m getting emotional thinking about it. The fact that there were queer cisgender woman in that space with cisgender women, queer butch women—there was such a range of people who felt comfortable there that it was truly the most inclusive trans nightlife space.”</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">“They’ve been wonderful to the LGBT community,” Espinoza-Lunden adds. “One of the most welcoming bars ever in L.A.”</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Chronicle Text G4 A&quot;, &quot;Chronicle Text G4 B&quot;, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Oxwood’s final week, groups gathered together on different nights to pay homage to Sutherland and the environment she helped create. “The Oxwood, which was the butt of so many jokes around the Valley, outlasted all the other bars,” Basford says. “[It’s the] end of an era.”</div><br /><br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-19771210184937921912017-03-09T20:37:00.000-08:002017-03-10T09:23:07.339-08:00Henry S. Jacob's Cafe<span style="color: #e06666;">Henry S. Jacob's Café</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 25 Graeme Street (a/k/a West Diamond Street), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Open/Closed: c. 1914</span><br /><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444;">As part of a fairly extensive research project, I have been&nbsp;looking into the history of&nbsp;the saloons and cafe's that used to exist around Pittsburgh's former Diamond Square (now Market Square). One of the best sources of information are the proceedings from License Court, which allowed citizens and other groups to contest the renewal of liquor licenses for various establishments. Imagine my surprise when I found the following complaints lodged against Henry S. Jacob's place. This report is from the Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 20, 1914:</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i6txaX-hM7c/WMIreHnVKiI/AAAAAAAAGK4/aXnd_mRYavcX1-1bFX554YgVuJCTixyYwCLcB/s1600/Henry%2BS.%2BJacobs%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i6txaX-hM7c/WMIreHnVKiI/AAAAAAAAGK4/aXnd_mRYavcX1-1bFX554YgVuJCTixyYwCLcB/s320/Henry%2BS.%2BJacobs%2B4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color: #444444;">Wow. Where to even start. During the same era, New York had its</span> <a href="http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2011/05/cafe-des-beaux-arts-ladies-bar.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">Café des Beaux Arts</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">, </span><span style="color: #444444;">a ladies drinking establishment opened in 1911. But the press emphasized that this was a genteel place. (Regular readers here will remember that saloons and bars of this era were nearly entirely identified as male-only spaces.)</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;">Mr. Jacob's place apparently wasn't. It was somehow predominantly or primarily women, without appearing to be a genteel place for ladies. In fact, we're told that many of the women are of "bad repute" or "strange." But if they were "prostitutes" looking for customers, why go to a bar that's "primarily" women? After all, logically, you are not going to find many men there. And though detectives claimed that these "strange women" had "asked them to go out," you got to wonder what most of these women were up to....</span></div><div><br /></div><br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-13816190801053766702017-03-05T20:38:00.002-08:002017-03-05T20:38:53.059-08:00Some Ladies Cafes in New York (1895)This illustration&nbsp;was accompanied by a syndicated article on Ladies Cafes in New York that appeared in several American newspapers in December 1895. I may transcribe the article later. Since there are few graphic depictions of the ladies café, an early pioneering example&nbsp;of&nbsp;a public&nbsp;socializing space for women (albeit for wealthy, white women only), I thought it would be fun to share. As we have noted before, many bars and restaurants of the time did not allow women to enter, or in some cases, only allowed them to enter if escorted by a man. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wkOsUIe8mvM/WLzmYuYpPcI/AAAAAAAAGKo/wkMA43Eawqcbs05l6MfJoNZHhs0UiWclQCLcB/s1600/Some%2BLadies%2BCafes%2Bin%2BNew%2BYork%2B1895.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wkOsUIe8mvM/WLzmYuYpPcI/AAAAAAAAGKo/wkMA43Eawqcbs05l6MfJoNZHhs0UiWclQCLcB/s640/Some%2BLadies%2BCafes%2Bin%2BNew%2BYork%2B1895.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><br /><br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-17695845021901957092017-01-30T16:42:00.001-08:002017-01-30T16:47:10.180-08:00National Dairy Kitchen Ladies Restaurant<span style="color: #e06666;">National Dairy Kitchen Ladies Restaurant<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tMK5X_5O0SU/WI_YY4S2w1I/AAAAAAAAGKE/RNdhbkL-rOkykM_0BzHjjFjzBu1wgleWwCLcB/s1600/Ladies%2BRestaurant%252C%2BCharlotte%252C%2BNY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tMK5X_5O0SU/WI_YY4S2w1I/AAAAAAAAGKE/RNdhbkL-rOkykM_0BzHjjFjzBu1wgleWwCLcB/s320/Ladies%2BRestaurant%252C%2BCharlotte%252C%2BNY.jpg" width="201" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlotte [NC] News, Jan. 3, 1900</td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: c. 1900</span><br /><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">The political news is so depressing these days that I'm digging into history as a kind of reprieve.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">This 1900&nbsp;article on the opening of&nbsp;a ladies restaurant is a good illustration of the basic observations we've made about the history of women's spaces. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">1) Because men tend to have the monopoly on societal resources (money, authority, expertise, etc.), it is not uncommon for men to open/own/control women's spaces. Notice that two men (Messrs. Rutledge &amp; LeGallais) opened this restaurant. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">2) When men open women's spaces, they often do as an after thought, as a way to make money off of women after the market for men is saturated. This is the case here. By there own admission, there&nbsp;were "several well kept restaurants in the city for men" which did not admit women. So these guys saw an untapped market for women diners who want an "a-la-carte lunch." (And yes, I fully recognize that they did not mean all women, just wealthy white women of leisure.)</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">3) When men open women's spaces, they do not really limit them to women--even though the men's spaces rigorously excluded women. Notice that this "ladies restaurant&nbsp; is for "ladies or ladies with escorts." By escorts, they mean men. But as we know from other ladies restaurants we have examined, the "escort" rule was often broken, meaning it was not uncommon for more men than women to show up in a "ladies restaurant." </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">This is a persistent historical problem around women's spaces, and one that even feminists (especially of the "liberal" variety) are often unaware of (or consciously ignore). &nbsp;In efforts to be all "inclusive," women will make all kinds of amends to include males, while they somehow miss (or don't care) that men are not doing the same. Notice the debate around bathrooms these days--it's all about women's bathrooms becoming "inclusive" to "all genders." Meanwhile, men's bathrooms carry on just as they always have. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">Does that mean that I think ladies restaurants were somehow "bad" then? Nope. Even with all their limitations of social/economic class and race, even though it was men dictating the terms, it still opened up a space for women to dine together and talk. And that's the start of all kinds of good things. </span></div><br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-17070441747325035042017-01-23T13:27:00.000-08:002017-01-23T13:27:45.603-08:00Bresnahan's Ladies Cafe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kfS2e18QSAk/WIZwDY7ikxI/AAAAAAAAGJw/xCzlIzb2BDADTZg5bO1hn5Jpsgr4bEDWACLcB/s1600/Bresnahan%2527s%2BLadies%2BCafe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kfS2e18QSAk/WIZwDY7ikxI/AAAAAAAAGJw/xCzlIzb2BDADTZg5bO1hn5Jpsgr4bEDWACLcB/s1600/Bresnahan%2527s%2BLadies%2BCafe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kfS2e18QSAk/WIZwDY7ikxI/AAAAAAAAGJw/xCzlIzb2BDADTZg5bO1hn5Jpsgr4bEDWACLcB/s320/Bresnahan%2527s%2BLadies%2BCafe.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening Star, September 19, 1900</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #e06666;">Bresnahan's Ladies Café</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 426 Ninth Street, Washington, DC, USA</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: c. 1900</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Especially after the Women's March on Washington, the pressure on women to be "inclusive" (include males) is big again--as if women had a long history of excluding males. </span><br /><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">What a big joke. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">In reality, that has rarely happened. Women have had the authority to exclude male from various gatherings for only very short periods of time in history and under very limited circumstances--all while men were quite comfortable making the dominant cultural institutions all male, or at minimum, with tiny, hard fought for&nbsp;token female representation, for centuries.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Sometimes, we get the cognitive dissonance thing--which is very popular today. We call an event or space something "for women, "but then let the men run amuck anyway. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">While it's very popular today, it's not unique to today, as the ad for the Bresnahan's Ladies Café shows. Even while the power in Washington government was 100% controlled by men in 1900, men could still barge in and take over this little "high-class" ladies café. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">So why bother with the name? Because it was a crumb, and you have to start somewhere.&nbsp;Even as women were barred from going into many Washington restaurants, cafe's, and bars, especially with no male escort, they could still go to Bresnahan's. Without a male escort. But they still had to put up with loud men&nbsp;taking up seats and tables anyway. (And yes, we're talking exclusively about wealthy white women who even had this limited "privilege.")</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Sound like any "women's" places you know of? That is how persistent&nbsp; and consistent the patriarchal domination of space has been over history.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><br /> <br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-44193634459649042692017-01-17T14:47:00.000-08:002017-01-17T14:56:27.476-08:00Barone's Variety Room<a href="https://thegayborhoodguru.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/barones-matches.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Barones matches" class="alignleft wp-image-1795" data-attachment-id="1795" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Perfection 1240&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="Barones matches" data-large-file="https://thegayborhoodguru.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/barones-matches.jpeg?w=500" data-medium-file="https://thegayborhoodguru.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/barones-matches.jpeg?w=220" data-orig-file="https://thegayborhoodguru.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/barones-matches.jpeg" data-orig-size="1058,1445" data-permalink="https://thegayborhoodguru.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/rustys-where-were-you-in-62/barones-matches/" height="270" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" src="https://thegayborhoodguru.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/barones-matches.jpeg?w=220&amp;h=300" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" width="197" /></a><span style="color: #e06666;">Barone's Variety Room</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 1116 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: 1963</span><br /><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666;">Since it appears that the old days are coming back, it's important to remind folks, especially our younger readers, just how the powerful responded to lesbian space. </span></div><div><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666;">This excerpt is from the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 12, 1974. The quoted material is from Byrna Aronson, who was then an administrative assistant with the American Civil Liberties Union. </span></div><div><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">"We were in Barone's Variety Room (a lesbian bar) in March, 1968, and plainclothes police came in. I didn't see them. I leaned down to kiss my girlfriend on the cheek, and Captain Clarence Ferguson, in a pork-pie hat, tapped me on the shoulder and said 'You're under arrest.' And I said, 'What for?' He said, 'Sodomy.' I just started to laugh.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">Twelve women were carted off in a paddywagon that night, Ms. Aronson among them. They were booked on a variety of charges. It was alleged (in graphic language) that several women had been making love on the floor, that others were drunk and disorderly, and that some had resisted arrest. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">The next morning at their arraignment, a magistrate dismissed the charges. "But we were left with an arrest record. In Philadelphia, if you're booked, your records go to the FBI. And so anytime you apply for a job that requires any kind of security clearance, you're out of luck. One of the women arrested had such a job, and she lost it.</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></div><br /><span style="color: #666666;">Barone's was closely associated with another lesbian bar named Rusty's. See our previous post on Rusty's <a href="http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/rustys.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">here</span></a>. </span>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-67344504779607546452016-12-29T20:38:00.001-08:002016-12-29T20:38:49.344-08:00Galatas Hotel Ladies Dining Room<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-7f3TsfFdY/WGXgrA8RhDI/AAAAAAAAGJc/vj1VVjKPouobRXT9qum62cvceNBSi2OzQCLcB/s1600/gallatus%2Bhotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-7f3TsfFdY/WGXgrA8RhDI/AAAAAAAAGJc/vj1VVjKPouobRXT9qum62cvceNBSi2OzQCLcB/s320/gallatus%2Bhotel.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greenville [Alabama] Advocate, 23 January 1895</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #e06666;">Galatas Hotel Ladies Dining Room</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 37 Commerce Street, Greenville, Alabama, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: c. 1895</span><br /><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div>The southern US was a miserable place during the 1890s--resurging racism via Jim Crow segregation, lynching, economic panics. </div><div><br /></div><div>Yet at least wealthy white women were able to have&nbsp;their own&nbsp;ladies dining room (albeit on the second floor, which is generally considered second class real estate, but who can be picky). Right?</div><div><br /></div><div>Actually,&nbsp;not really. </div><div><br /></div><div>At least according to this advertisement, men were not admitted UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY LADIES, which means, of course, that it was not truly for ladies at all. </div><div><br /></div><div>History has as many consistencies as elements of change. And one is that "women's space" is always provisional and that men always insist on some kind of access, though the terms of that access may change from one era to the next. And that even white upper class privilege will not help very much in making a space truly for women only. </div><div><br /></div><div>Needless to say, poor women and women of color&nbsp;seldom got even&nbsp;this kind of token space. </div><div><br /></div><div>You may rest assured, however, that ladies were banned pretty much 100% from any "men's space" though. Especially during that era. </div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-42310995109232990662016-11-30T20:35:00.000-08:002016-12-29T20:18:45.409-08:00Who Crushed the Lesbian Bars?Same double standard, just different bullsh**&nbsp;when it comes to&nbsp;legitimizing why its ok for men to have their own space (8 gay bars for men in Portland), but women can't (not a single freaking party where dickheads aren't hitting on you). <br /><br />From <a href="http://www.wweek.com/culture/2016/11/30/who-crushed-the-lesbian-bars-a-new-minefield-of-sexual-politics/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Williamette Week</span></a>: <br /><br /><h1><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Who Crushed the Lesbian Bars? A New Minefield of Identity Politics</span></h1><span class="subheadline" style="color: black;">Portland, an LGBTQ haven, doesn't have a single dance party that caters exclusively to women seeking women. Good luck starting one.</span><br /><div><span class="subheadline"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></div><div><span class="subheadline"></span><span style="color: black;">By Ellena Rosenthal | </span> <br /><div class="publish"><span style="color: black;">13 hours ago </span></div><div class="publish"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div class="publish"><span style="color: black;">A slightly dumpy strip mall on Northeast Sandy Boulevard near Interstate 205 houses a convenience store and the closest thing Portland has to a lesbian bar.</span><br /><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Just don't call it that.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Six years ago, 40-year-old Jenn Davis and her partner, Armida Hanlon, opened Escape Bar &amp; Grill.</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Davis is a lesbian. Many of her customers are lesbians.</span></div><div class="pb-feature"><div class="pb-ad-container inline-big-box-300x250 border-bottom-airy" data-ad-type="mobile_inline" data-desktop-display="false" data-mobile-display="true" id="mobile_inline" style="display: none;"></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">A neon sign in the bar advertising Southern Comfort has a minuscule rainbow underlining the whiskey's logo. On a </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_942660559" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="color: black;">Saturday</span></span><span style="color: black;"> night, groups of 30-something women belt karaoke tunes next to baby boomer trans women with blown-out hair and sparkling dresses.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">But Davis refuses to call Escape a lesbian bar.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"I think when you put a label on the bar, it goes downhill," she says. "And the people who come in here love that we don't label it."</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><iframe frameborder="0" height="0" id="google_ads_iframe_/2165149/728x90_inline_pos2_0__hidden__" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/2165149/728x90_inline_pos2_0__hidden__" scrolling="no" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; display: none; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: hidden;" title="" width="0"></iframe><span style="color: black;">Davis' reluctance to leave anyone out is a clue to solving a mystery.</span></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Why in Portland—one of the most LGBTQ-friendly cities in America, and home to the nation's first bisexual governor and its first lesbian House speaker—is there no lesbian nightlife?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="color: black;">It's been six years since the Egyptian Club, better known as the E-Room, lowered its rainbow flag in Southeast Portland, and in that time no brick-and-mortar lesbian bar has emerged to fill its space. (By contrast, Portland has eight gay bars for men.)</span><br /><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Moreover, the city doesn't have a single dance night or recurring party that caters exclusively to women seeking women.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">So what happened?</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Did the lesbian bar disappear because people's identities splintered, leaving behind too few people to patronize women-only spaces? Or did it vanish because mainstream culture has evolved, turning every bar in Portland—from Sloan's Tavern to the Florida Room—into an unofficial lesbian bar?</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The answer is a little of both.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The transgender rights movement that's gained steam in recent years has exploded the categories of gay and straight and male and female.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">This fall, Portland State University allowed students to choose from nine genders and nine sexual orientations when filling out demographic paperwork.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">In PSU's recent survey of students and their identities, more students identified as "pansexual" than lesbian (see glossary).</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">And PSU's students are typical of their generation.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"I've never felt comfortable with the term lesbian," says Llondyn Elliott, 19, who identifies as non-binary. "It's really restricting to me to say I'm a lesbian. That means I'm a girl who likes girls. But am I a girl? And do I only like girls? No."</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The result? Announcing that a Portland party is intended exclusively for lesbians is stepping into a minefield of identity politics.</span></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">In the past two years, events catering to lesbians, like the monthly meet-up Fantasy Softball League, have been targeted online as unsafe spaces for trans women and others who don't identify with feminine pronouns. This past summer, semi-regular parties for lesbians, like Lesbian Night at Old Town's CC Slaughters, changed their names and focus to avoid controversy and be more inclusive. And lesbian-owned bars that draw lesbian customers, like Escape, shun the label so as not to offend.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The fights over language may seem academic and obscure if you're not part of them. But they are increasingly the battlegrounds over how people see themselves and how the world sees and treats them—and those views strain friendships, shutter events and start internet flame wars.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Trish Bendix, former editor of AfterEllen, an online publication about lesbian, queer and bisexual women in the media, lived in Portland from 2011 to 2014. She says she has never been around so many queer people in her life, but she was often among a minority who identified as lesbian.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"I often feel like lesbians are forgotten or left behind," she says, "and sometimes it feels lonely."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><em><strong><span style="color: black;">Changing language</span></strong></em></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Emily Stutzman, 31, tried to create a space for lesbians. It ended poorly.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">A producer for a Portland ad agency, Stutzman says she couldn't find places in the city to hang out with other lesbians after moving here from Indiana in 2008.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">In 2014, after ending a romantic relationship, an unsettling thought struck her: "How do I find somebody else?"</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">So that year she decided to create her own social gathering for lesbians, calling it Fantasy Softball League, a winking nod to stereotypes about lesbians. The "league" had nothing to do with softball, and instead was a monthly meet-up at Vendetta, a bar on North Williams Avenue.</span></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"Hey ladies," an ad beckoned. "Cool girls, drinking cool drinks in a cool bar, talking about cool stuff."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">But all was not cool.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">In summer 2015, Stutzman, who has wavy red hair and wears an enameled "I Love Cats" pin on her jean jacket, recalls walking through Vendetta greeting people when someone she'd never met—someone who didn't identify with traditional female conventions like the pronoun "she"—confronted her.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"The person was hostile, and wanting to pick a fight," Stutzman recalls. "This person was offended and said they would tell their friends that we were a group of people that were non-inclusive and not respectful of their gender."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The person—Stutzman never got a name—left the event, and Stutzman was left feeling confused. As she looked around, she saw many people who fell between male and female. She thought her event was inclusive, even if the vernacular wasn't.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"What we wanted to say is, if you're a straight dude, don't come to this event," she says. "Everyone else was fine."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Stutzman adjusted her language, no longer calling Fantasy Softball League a lesbian event. Instead, she called it an event for queer women. But even with the change, Stutzman still worried.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"Everything I tried, someone was offended," she says. "It got weird and political, and I wanted it to be a fun thing."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">That fall, Stutzman handed responsibility for the event to Alissa Young, who renamed the event Gal Pals, relocated it to the Florida Room on North Killingsworth Street, and ran into more trouble. Some people took offense at the event's new feminine name.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">So Young folded the event. Now she mourns the loss: "Can't we have spaces that are just for lesbians?"</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The uproar over Fantasy Softball League was repeated several times this past summer at other events.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">After being accused of condoning "trans women exterminationism" in August, the organizers of Temporary Lesbian Bar apologized for imagery used to promote the inclusive monthly event at Mississippi Pizza.</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The offense? Using the labrys—a double-sided ax often associated with Greek goddesses and a symbol of female strength—as the group's icon. "Hold this group accountable," wrote Viridian Sylvae, a transgender lesbian, on Facebook, noting the image's connection to Greek fascism and violence against trans women.</span></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">In September, a monthly party for queer women in Portland drew rebukes because it called itself a "dyke party" that catered to women and "female-identified folk."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"Everyone who is female-identified is a woman," wrote one critic on Facebook. "Are you saying that you believe there are people who identify as women who aren't women?"</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">CC Slaughters, an Old Town gay bar, used to host Lesbian Night. It now calls the weekly bash Queer Bait. "We're trying to be more inclusive, because that's the crowd that's coming in here—gay men, lesbians, transgender people and heterosexuals," says Nemo Haycock, CC Slaughters' manager.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">At Crush, a queer bar on Southeast Morrison Street, manager Chris Stewart told an organizer of an event for queer and trans women that they couldn't use the word "exclusively" in their advertisements for the event. That would run afoul of anti-discrimination laws that allow, for example, ladies nights but draw the line at ladies-only nights. Stewart says it would have also gone against what Crush stands for as a bar—that everyone is welcome.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"We can't ask anyone to check in with their identity at the door," Stewart says.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Kim Davis, owner of the now-closed E-Room, cites a combination of factors that doomed her business after 15 years. The Great Recession, Oregon's smoking ban in bars, and her own health—not changes in people's identities—made carrying on a challenge. She says it was always harder to run a bar that catered to women than one that catered to men, who tend to have more money and motivation to go out to drink during the week.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">But Davis also noticed shifts in how her clientele interacted with the outside world. If she opened a bar today, she says, she probably wouldn't call it a lesbian bar.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"It's hard to do anything today without hurting somebody's feelings," Davis says. "If you wanted to have a lesbian bar in Portland today, you would be free to do that. At the same time, people might think you're taking away their freedom by calling it that."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><em><strong><span style="color: black;">Lesbian bars in other cities also close</span></strong></em></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Portland is not an anomaly. Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York have all witnessed the decline of the lesbian bar, as former customers forge new identities—and new connections via the internet.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">How did this shift happen?</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">It wasn't too long ago that identifying as lesbian (or gay, bisexual or trans) carried a huge stigma. On Election Day, Gov. Kate Brown told a crowd of supporters "what it felt like to live in fear" of losing her job as a young lawyer because she was in a relationship with a woman at the time.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Today, expectations have changed. Not only did voters elect Brown governor, Oregon lawmakers elected Rep. Tina Kotek (D-Portland) to be their House speaker, the nation's first openly lesbian speaker. And she's hardly the only gay woman in power in Portland or Salem. From Portland Public Schools to Portland City Hall, lesbians have led the way.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">But language has also changed.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Craig Leets, director of PSU's Queer Resource Center, says students don't feel limited to calling themselves "gay" or "straight." For some, it's too mainstream, too apolitical. It's lost the ability to jolt outsiders like the Midwestern grandmothers who've embraced Ellen DeGeneres. "It feels too comfortable," he says.</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">It would probably be unthinkable to PSU's non-straight students to go back to an earlier, more prescriptive era. In the university's 2016 survey of students and their identities, most students who didn't identify as straight identified as bisexual—some 30 percent.</span></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">State Rep. Rob Nosse (D-Portland), one of the sponsors of the bill that expanded the definitions of gender and sexual orientation available to Oregon college students, is in awe of the changes. (The bill, signed into law in 2015, asks all Oregon public colleges and universities to offer students these choices. That's an unusual advance given that only a few other university systems, including in California and New York, do anything similar.)</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"There's a lot more gender fluidity than when I was growing up in the 1980s," says Nosse, who is among several openly gay Oregon lawmakers. "We didn't even talk about bisexuality."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">The debate over naming identities and creating spaces for them isn't limited to women. However, Byron Beck, </span><em><span style="color: black;">WW</span></em><span style="color: black;">'s former Queer Window columnist, says the conversation is not as prevalent in gay male culture. "It's easy to find gay events for men in town," he says.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Among some women, the expansion of the LGBT community into the LGBTQQIAAP community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual) has produced splinters.</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Griffin Smith, 23, used to call herself a lesbian. Two years ago, Smith started dating people who didn't identify as women but instead identified as transgender or non-binary. Today, she says women-only events and labels feel uncomfortable, almost archaic in their restrictions. She prefers to call herself queer.</span></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"Someone told me once, who was a lesbian, that 'she didn't fuck with girls who fucked with boys,' and I found that really off-putting," Smith says. "I was surrounded by lesbians, and at the same time I was dating someone who was non-binary, and it was super, super uncomfortable for me to identify as a lesbian at that point."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Sally McWilliams, a professor of women and gender studies at PSU, echoes what the numbers show, saying more of her female students call themselves queer than lesbian, telling her the term lesbian feels too limiting. It got to the point that she questioned whether she should continue to offer her course in lesbian literature, believing it may no longer be relevant.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"Now that there are more options around sexuality and gender expression, it's been liberating for some," she says. "It's also problematic. This kind of micro-naming we have going on makes it hard then to say, how do you have an inclusive community if you have all these little subcategories?"</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Jenn Davis, who owns Escape, knows about those divides.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">She also runs weekly dance parties in Portland and Seattle called Inferno: A Hot Flash Production. She and her partner bought the event company in 2014.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Under different ownership, the events were geared toward older lesbians—mostly women over 40. The events are now open to women and the trans community.</span></div><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">But that change was controversial. Patrons complained because men were coming in. Other patrons complained when Davis started checking IDs at the door for gender markers. Still others complained when she stopped checking IDs. (Trans patrons can now call ahead, or simply tell door staff their identity.)</span></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Davis has so far resisted the trend to expand Inferno's brand to a queer party.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"We will lose the women," she says. "There's been a lot of changes. I'm scared of how to speak with people sometimes because I don't want something wrong to come out of my mouth."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><em><strong><span style="color: black;">"A place where people can dance, let loose and not feel worried"</span></strong></em></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">So what does the future look like?</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">It looks a lot like Psychic Techniques, a queer rave held monthly until recently in the Central Eastside Industrial District.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Vera Rubin, the event's planner, says she sees the value in queer-only and gender-specific spaces, but not when it comes to her parties.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"We don't want a party that's just all dykes or all gay men," Rubin says. "When we think of cities with really good vibrant nightlife, they're always mixed parities that are pushing the city forward."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Psychic Techniques disbanded last month partly for business reasons, but many other inclusive parties, such as Lez Do It, Judy on Duty and CAKE, will serve its role.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"Everyone is welcome," says Megan Holmes, who runs Judy on Duty at the High Water Mark on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. "It's a place where people can dance, let loose and not feel worried."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">On a recent </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_942660560" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="color: black;">Saturday</span></span><span style="color: black;"> night, a strong, continuous beat pulsated inside the District East warehouse at Psychic Techniques. Revelers in 7-inch stiletto boots wearing geisha-like costumes and press-on nails like daggers jostled next to dancers wearing everyday jeans with carabiners dangling from belt loops. A bartender wore nothing but a black leather thong. Drag queens wore headdresses with LED lights that looked like jellyfish.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">"All the different pieces of us that don't fit into mainstream gay culture," says Jessica Starling, a drag queen who identifies as a high femme daddy. "This is just the place for that."</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">Under a disco ball that sparkled with flashing colored lights, a full rainbow of Portland's lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual and allied community unfurled. Walking into Psychic Techniques, it was hard to identify the gender and sexual identities of the revelers.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><span style="color: black;">And no one was even trying.</span></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class=" col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 col-xs-12 col-print-12"><div class="element element-paragraph"><em><span style="color: black;">WW staff writer Beth Slovic contributed to this report.</span></em><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-60292943420290875192016-09-28T19:44:00.001-07:002016-09-28T19:44:53.564-07:00Crazy Nanny's<span style="clear: right; color: #e06666; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="clear: right; color: #e06666; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Crazy Nanny's</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 32 7th Avenue South, New York, New York, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened: 1990s?</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Closed:</span> <span style="color: #e06666;">Ceased to be lesbian bar around 2004</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image" class="_WCg" height="281" src="https://geo0.ggpht.com/cbk?panoid=-MXlM-MtMG2SumUJOLLdcg&amp;output=thumbnail&amp;cb_client=search.LOCAL_UNIVERSAL.gps&amp;thumb=2&amp;w=227&amp;h=160&amp;yaw=97.835663&amp;pitch=0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The former Crazy Nanny's</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #666666;">From</span> <a href="http://www.clubplanet.com/Venues/71107/New-York/Crazy-Nannys"><span style="color: #e06666;">Club Planet</span></a>:<br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Crazy Nanny's - Like no other Lesbian bar in New York, is the reason it is always jam-packed. Friendly and lively, as well as casual and fashionable. Crazy Nanny's is a diverse place to enjoy a game of pool downstairs and dancing upstairs. It is like a lesbian fun park, trivia night, karaoke nights, and drag queen performances and of course DJ's.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://guest.starwoodhotels.com/discovery/tourguide/cityItemDetails.jsp?cityId=33&amp;catgId=46&amp;itemId=5842"><span style="color: #e06666;">City Tips</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;">says the following:</span> <br /><br /><b><span style="color: black;">Lesbian hangout</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Flannel-shirt wearing lesbians of all ages and shapes mix it up with pretty young women at this West Village bar and dance club, recognizable by its pink exterior. Inside it resembles most other neighborhood bars, but with a definite edge. The great DJs, strong drinks and homey atmosphere make it an ideal place to shoot pool and wait for the women of your dreams. Drinks are cheap and there is no cover charge.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">A June 2004 article in</span> <a href="http://thevillager.com/villager_60/alesbianbarwhereeverybody.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">The Villager</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;">reported that Crazy Nanny's had "recently" gone "hetero," and at any rate, all other gay bar sites report that it is closed--though as usual, no date is given. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">As to when Crazy Nanny's opened, this June 1998 article in the <a href="http://observer.com/1998/06/a-lesbian-interloper-invades-new-york/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Observer</span></a> mentions Crazy Nanny's in passing, so it was obviously around then. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-14553406651049751762016-09-26T20:21:00.003-07:002016-09-26T20:21:40.912-07:00The Hideaway<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a h="ID=images,5138.1" href="https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hideaway+st.+petersburg+lesbian+bar&amp;view=detailv2&amp;&amp;id=EBFA33EDC1618DBDD0D40F3FC10E6DAAAB87BE9F&amp;selectedIndex=0&amp;ccid=b2kt773Y&amp;simid=608021792372494133&amp;thid=OIP.M6f692defbdd8f916027b71ba3399703co0" id="detail" style="height: 225px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 300px;" title="View image details"><img data-bm="131" height="300" role="presentation" src="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&amp;id=OIP.M6f692defbdd8f916027b71ba3399703co0&amp;w=300&amp;h=225&amp;c=0&amp;pid=1.9&amp;rs=0&amp;p=0&amp;r=0" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hideaway</td></tr></tbody></table><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: #e06666;">The Hideaway</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 1756 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: Mid 1990s -2014</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Notice how all the same lame excuses are trotted out regarding the loss of womyn's space. Basically that all you girls should be happy with a nomadic party scene that pops up now and then. Who needs dedicated space? Who needs community you can actually find when you need it? Just be content with basically being homeless, stateless,&nbsp;with a "community" that's chaotic and incoherent.&nbsp;It's the cool thing now! (At least for lesbians. Nobody else would accept this deal as cool.)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">From</span> <a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/2014/01/15/overheard-in-tampa-bay-oldest-lesbian-bar-in-florida-shuts-down/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Watermark Online</span></a>: <br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><b>Overheard in Tampa Bay: Oldest lesbian bar in Florida shuts down</b></span><br /><!----------------------------------------------------- Posting Author--------------------------------------------------------> <span style="color: black;"><br /></span><br /><div class="wmrk-actual_post_posted"><!-- --><span style="color: black;">By : Anonymous </span></div><!------------------------------------------------------ Posting Date --------------------------------------------------------> <span style="color: black;"><br /></span><br /><div class="wmrk-actual_post_date"><span style="color: black;">January 15, 2014</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">The oldest lesbian bar in the state shuttered its doors on Jan. 13, ending an era of more than 20 years on St. Petersburg’s Fourth Street. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the bar is done. The Hideaway, and it’s neighboring boy bar, Haymarket Pub, went out with big bashes and announced that while the land and buildings may have been sold, the spirit of the bars could keep the party alive at a different location. That location, however, has yet to be announced. Facebook pages for both of the hot spots hint at a resurrection in the future, and the faithful seem to be ready to support the renaissance whenever and wherever it may appear.</span></div><div class="wmrk-actual_post_date"><br /></div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-25155486016983848692016-09-26T20:02:00.003-07:002016-09-26T20:02:57.491-07:00The Flame<a href="http://sduptownnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Flame-Building.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><div><a href="http://sduptownnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Flame-Building.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The exterior of the iconic nightclub, The Flame, on Park Boulevard (Courtesy )" class="wp-image-22967 size-medium" height="275" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://sduptownnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Flame-Building.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Flame</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #e06666;">The Flame</span></div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 3780 Park Boulevard, San Diego, California, USA</span><br /><a href="http://sduptownnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Flame-Building.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: 1984-2015</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Yet another lost lesbian space we somehow missed from last year. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">From </span><a href="http://sduptownnews.com/park-boulevard-nightclub-the-flame-is-sold/"><span style="color: #e06666;">San Diego Uptown News</span></a><span style="color: #e06666;">:</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><b>Park Boulevard nightclub The Flame is sold</b></span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><div class="meta"><span style="color: black;">Posted: October 9th, 2015</span></div><div class="entry"><span style="color: black;">By Ken Williams | Editor</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">The Flame — a landmark lesbian bar that opened in 1984, and then changed hands 20 years later — was sold this week to a Hillcrest developer.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">James Nicholas of Clownfish Partners, who bought the vacant property at 3780 Park Blvd. from seller Donny Duenas for $1.9 million, told San Diego Uptown News that he will be turning the single-story structure into a multi-use project by adding six apartments and a central courtyard.</span><br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_22967" style="width: 310px;"><div class="wp-caption-text"><br /></div></div><span style="color: black;">Nicholas said he plans to “restore the façade” of the vintage building and keep the iconic sign. “It will stay on the building and get restored to its former glory,” he vowed.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Members of the LGBT community have been worried about saving buildings that have historical significance. Nicholas said The Flame building has never been designated as historical. “There is currently a study being done to see if it is, in fact, historic,” he said. “If it is designated as historic, I would love to have it acknowledged on the building.”</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">The “Hillcrest History Timeline” published on HillQuest’s website offers this tidbit about the old nightclub:</span><br /><em><span style="color: black;">“</span></em><em><span style="color: black;">1984</span></em><em><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;— The Flame, an old supper club on Park Blvd (named after a fire destroyed the first restaurant, The Garden of Allah), reopens as a lesbian bar. It changes ownership twenty years later, after being purchased by the owners of Numbers, a watering hole across the street. The Flame changed ownership again in 2010.”</span></em><br /><i><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: black;">The seller’s brokerage firm, Location Matters of Del Mar, stated in a news release that Duenas had operated The Flame since 2008. Mike Spilky of Location Matters handled the sale and Paul Ahern of Location Matters will oversee the leasing of the cocktail lounge.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">The developer said the 6,098-square-foot lot is already zoned for multi-use, so the addition of six apartments won’t require rezoning. Nicholas explained where the apartments will be built in relationship to the existing building, which has 7,800 square feet and a basement.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">“They will be within the existing structure above the new cocktail lounge that will be reduced in size to 2,000 square feet and behind the new cocktail lounge and will go up a total of three stories, two more than the ground floor,” Nicholas said.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Until a tenant is signed for the cocktail lounge, there is no telling whether the bar will remain LGBT oriented. The developer said he has no preference.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">News of the sale of the vacant property quickly drew praise from several community leaders in Hillcrest.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">“I am happy to hear that there is movement on this property. New residential is always a good thing in Hillcrest,” said Ben Nicholls, executive director of Hillcrest Business Association.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">“I am enthusiastic to have the property continue as a nightlife and entertainment destination. I do hope that the new owners seek out a creative entertainment concept that fits with the new hip feel of Park Boulevard,” he said.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">“The days of the Flame being a ‘hole in the wall’ are over.&nbsp;Whatever happens, I am confident that the iconic signage and LGBT cultural influence will feature prominently at that location.”</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Luke Terpstra, chair of the Hillcrest Town Council, welcomed the property’s sale.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">“This part of Hillcrest has really been improving over the last couple of years and&nbsp;this is good news when a business can reopen and breathe neighborhood life again,” Terpstra said. “It does not need to be a gay business, just a successful business that serves the community at large.”</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">This stretch of Park Boulevard, south of University Avenue, is part of the city’s Egyptian Quarter. The Flame, however, does not reflect that style of architecture. But the area is seeing a mini building boom with the construction of the Mr. Robinson loft building at the corner of Park Boulevard and Robinson Avenue. Executive chef Brad Wise will be opening TRUST restaurant in the new building.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">—</span><em><span style="color: black;">Ken Williams is editor of Uptown News and Mission Valley News and can be reached at </span></em><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><em><span style="color: black;">ken@sdcnn.com</span></em></a><em><span style="color: black;"> or at 619-961-1952. Follow him on Twitter at @KenSanDiego, Instagram at @KenSD or Facebook at KenWilliamsSanDiego.</span></em></div></span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"></span><span style="color: #e06666;"></span>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-74559528269371093132016-09-24T11:53:00.000-07:002016-09-24T11:53:01.087-07:00Heraean Games<span style="clear: right; color: #e06666; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="article-image" data-kind="article-image" height="236" id="article-image-33179" src="https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/33179/image.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An artist's interpretation of ancient Olympia. [Photo: </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympos.jpg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain</span></a>]</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #e06666;">Heraean Games</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: Olympia, Greece</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: 776 BC-?</span><br /><div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666;">Selection from <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-ancient-greece-barred-women-from-even-watching-the-games-they-started-their-own-olympics"><span style="color: #e06666;">Atlas Obscura</span></a>:</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div><h1 class="title-lg item-title"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 class="title-lg item-title"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><br /><b><span style="color: black;"><br />When Ancient Greece Banned Women From Olympics, They Started Their Own <br />Sadly, historians lack good documentation on the badass Heraean Games.</span></b> <div class="article-dek-wrap"><h2 class="subtitle subtitle-lg item-subtitle"></h2><div class="article-byline-dateline"><span class="article-byline"><span style="color: black;">by Lauren Young</span></span><br /><div class="detail-sm article-byline-date"><span style="color: black;">August 10, 2016</span></div></div></div></div><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><div class="item-body-text-graf"><span style="color: black;">Much like their modern counterpart, the Olympic Games in ancient Greece wasn't exactly a level playing field for women.&nbsp;It's true that women&nbsp;of all ages were allowed to enjoy the festivities and exhilarating athletic events in cities throughout the Peloponnese states, including Delos and Athens. But the Games in Olympia in the land of Elis—the city where the Olympics originated—retained its traditional, sacred ban of women. Elis decreed that if a married woman (unmarried women could watch) was caught present at the Olympic Games she would be cast down from Mount Typaeum and into the river flowing below, according to Greek geographer and travel writer Pausanias.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="item-body-text-graf"><span style="color: black;">During these ancient times, women lived much shorter lives, were excluded from political decision-making and religious rites, were forced into early marriages, and then gave birth to several children. Despite the societal inequalities and oppression, women in Greece wanted to play—so they started their own Olympics&nbsp;called the Heraean Games.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="item-body-text-graf"><span style="color: black;">“Every fourth year,” Pausanias wrote in 175 A.D., “there is woven for Hera a robe by the Sixteen women, and the same also hold games called Heraea.”</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">The Heraean Games, a separate festival honoring the Greek goddess Hera, demonstrated the athleticism of young, unmarried women. The athletes, with their hair hanging freely and dressed in special tunics that cut just&nbsp;above the knee and bared their right shoulder and breast, competed in footraces. The track shortened to about one-sixth the length of the men’s was made up in the Olympic Stadium. While women were not allowed to watch the men’s Olympics, it’s uncertain if men were barred from these all-female races.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><the a="" about="" above="" all-female="" allowed="" and="" athletes="" athleticism="" b="" bared="" barred="" breast="" competed="" cut="" demonstrated="" dressed="" festival="" footraces.="" freely="" from="" games="" goddess="" greek="" hair="" hanging="" hera="" heraean="" honoring="" if="" in="" it="" just="" knee="" length="" made="" men="" nbsp="" not="" of="" olympic="" olympics="" one-sixth="" races.="" right="" s="" separate="" shortened="" shoulder="" special="" stadium.="" that="" the="" their="" these="" to="" track="" tunics="" uncertain="" unmarried="" up="" was="" watch="" were="" while="" with="" women.="" women="" young=""></the><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-12183912553821635322016-07-27T13:07:00.001-07:002016-07-27T13:07:32.585-07:00Women-Only Beaches in Morrocco<span style="color: #666666;">Not a lost space, but a proposed womyn-only space. Not clear to me why wanting a&nbsp;beach away from "the eyes of leering men" automatically makes one conservative. Guess us liberal gals are just supposed to enjoy sexual harassment?</span><span style="color: #666666;"> Really, all this is just</span><span style="color: #666666;"> a useful way for men to play divide-and-conquer. Instead of trying to buttonhole various&nbsp;actions as liberal or conservative, why don't we just&nbsp;ask if they are good for women and go from there?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">From </span><a href="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/society/2016/7/22/no-men-allowed-conservative-moroccan-women-demand-ladies-only-beaches"><span style="color: #e06666;">The New Arab</span></a>:<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><strong>No men allowed? Conservative Moroccan women demand ladies-only beaches</strong></span><br /><div class="captiontext"><span style="color: black;">In Morocco, attitudes towards women's bodies are conservative </span></div><div class="date"><span style="color: black;"> Date of publication: 22 July 2016 </span></div><div class="print"><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></div><div class="body clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><div class="summary"><span style="color: black;">Women in Morocco have demanded that authorities set up a women-only public beach so that they can enjoy the sweltering summer heat away from the eyes of leering men.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></div><div><div><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div><div><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Women in Morocco have demanded authorities set up a women-only public beach so that they can enjoy the sweltering summer heat away from the eyes of "leering men".</span><br /><span style="color: black;">An activist group is campaigning to have their own stretch of public land where they can swim in accordance with their religious beliefs without the fear of being sexually harassed.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">"If we take into consideration freedom and human rights then women clearly have the right enjoy the beach as they wish and according to their religious principles," women's rights campaigner, Fouzia al-Salhi, told <em>The New Arab</em>.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">"The beaches are justified because there are women who refrain from undressing in front of men to swim because Islam commands that women conceal themselves and show modesty. We must respect their beliefs and protect their honour."</span><br /><span style="color: black;">But the move has sparked controversy in the kingdom.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Activist Noureddine Mohammadi claimed women-only beaches would only further encourage intolerance and gender segregation.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">"The calls for these female beaches happen every summer and come from Islamist groups that follow ideological convictions that women's bodies are disgraceful," Mohammadi said.</span><br /><table border="0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(162, 188, 226); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(162, 188, 226); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; margin: 25px 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td width="5%"></td><td align="left" width="5%"><img border="0" src="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/Content/english/images/leftQuots.png" /></td><td style="padding: 30px 0px;" width="700"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Conservative-leaning women want to enjoy the beach in privacy away from prying eyes, but opponents say it's a slippery slope for more gender segregation</strong></span></td><td align="right" width="5%"><img border="0" src="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/Content/english/images/rightQuots.png" /></td><td width="5%"></td></tr></tbody></table><div><table border="0" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: right;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td style="text-align: right;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/file/Get/172fc14e-5ede-4f6c-9819-918a06e95b3e" width="350" /></td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Private women's beaches are common in the Middle East [Getty]</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="color: black;">He also said that the ladies beaches could lead to other public spaces being gender segregated such as parks.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">In Morocco, attitudes towards women's bodies are conservative, which can put women who are deemed to be scantily dressed at risk of harassment.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Last year, two women who walked through a market wearing dresses faced charges of "gross indecency" - they were eventually cleared of the charges.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Local media reported this week that police were investigating a Facebook group posting images of women in bikinis in a bid to make them "turn to God".</span><br /><span style="color: black;">"Watch out, young Moroccan women, we have eyes that are filming you on the beaches and we will show your photos to prevent the deterioration of the country," the group said.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Private beaches with areas allocated for women are common around the Middle East; however, they are usually expensive, making them inaccessible to the majority of the population.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">In February, the United Arab Emirates dedicated a stretch of the coastline for women to sunbathe and enjoy the beach in privacy.</span></div></div></div></div><br />ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-84694715566427958972016-07-15T13:49:00.000-07:002016-07-18T13:44:32.263-07:00Union Women's Lounge, Michigan State?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.tsn/71228_edn__womenslounge003_022115f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="edn__womenslounge003_022115" border="0" class="img-responsive" height="266" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.tsn/71228_edn__womenslounge003_022115f.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Women's Lounge (2015)</td></tr></tbody></table><h1 class="headline" style="border-image: none;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">Union Women's Lounge</span></h1><div class="headline"><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan, USA</span></div><div class="headline"><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div class="headline"><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened: 1925</span></div><div class="headline"><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span></div><div class="headline"><span style="color: #e06666;">Closed: Not yet, but endangered</span></div><h1 class="headline"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">With the explosion in campus rapes, assaults, etc., you'd think a male faculty member might have other&nbsp;serious matters&nbsp;to worry about. What could be more benign than a quiet little ol' study space? But you would be wrong. Ending womyn's space of any kind is a very important&nbsp;priority for&nbsp;the MRAs. </span></h1><h1 class="headline"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/should-michigan-state-have-a-women-only-study-lounge">Should Michigan State have a women-only study lounge?</a></span></h1><h2 class="sub-headline"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">University of Michigan-Flint prof challenging space in student union</span></h2><div class="author"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><span style="color: black;"><time class="posted updated" datetime="2016-07-15">Posted: 11:19 AM, July 15, 2016</time><time class="updated" datetime="2016-07-15">Updated: 11:20 AM, July 15, 2016</time></span><br /><div gigid="showShareBarUI" id="gigya-share-bar" style="visibility: visible;"><div class="gig-bar-container gig-share-bar-container"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-right gig-button-container-facebook gig-button-container-facebook-count-right gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-horizontal"><div alt="" class="gig-button-up" id="gigya-share-bar-reaction0" title=""><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="mod-body"><span style="color: black;"></span><figure class="wrapper-media photo"><u><span class="crop-photo" style="background-image: url(&quot;http://media.clickondetroit.com/photo/2015/12/02/MSU-Logo---16x9---21682788_910165_ver1.0_640_360.jpg&quot;);"></span><small class="copyright"></small></u><span style="color: black;"> </span></figure><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><div class="story-content"><span style="color: black;">Should Michigan State have a designated space in its student union for only women to study?</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Mark Perry, an economic professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, is challenging the designation,</span> <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/12/michigan-state-faces-civil-rights-complaint-for-women-only-student-union-lounge/"><span style="color: #e06666;">according to a story in The Daily Caller</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Perry says the space "blatantly discriminates against men." He filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">While Perry isn't optimistic about the complaint, The Daily Caller reports MSU plans to renovate the Women's Lounge in the union into a lactation space and study space for men and women.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">The Union Women's Lounge opened in 1925,</span> <a href="http://statenews.com/article/2015/02/womens-lounge-role"><span style="color: #e06666;">according to the State News</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">It's been </span><a href="https://www.aei.org/publication/is-this-legal-no-men-are-allowed-in-msus-womens-lounge/"><span style="color: #e06666;">repeatedly </span><span style="color: #e06666;">challenged</span></a> <span style="color: black;">in recent years.</span>&nbsp;</div></div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-78630307729129841852016-07-11T11:00:00.000-07:002016-07-11T11:00:04.895-07:00Ladies Restroom? <h2 class="yiv9164797945post-title" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12547" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">Great post on the history of the increasingly endangered ladies restroom by Jan Whittaker at her blog, <a href="https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2016/06/12/ladies-restrooms/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Restaurant-ing through History</span></a>. </span></h2><h2 class="yiv9164797945post-title" style="color: #555555; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 class="yiv9164797945post-title" style="color: #555555; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2016/06/12/ladies-restrooms/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12546" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ladies’ restrooms</a></h2><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12553" style="color: #888888;">by <a href="http://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/author/victualling/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12552" rel="nofollow" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">victualling</a> </span> <br /><div class="yiv9164797945post-content" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12421" style="-ms-overflow-x: auto; direction: ltr; margin-top: 1em; max-width: 560px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12420" style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesroomsign.jpg" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12477" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img alt="ladiesroomsign" border="0" class="yiv9164797945size-medium yiv9164797945wp-image-5663 " id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12476" src="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesroomsign.jpg?w=300" style="-ms-overflow-x: auto; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both; float: right; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 1em; max-width: 100%; min-height: auto; padding: 4px;" /></a>Public restrooms have been in the news lately because of conflict over transgender rights, but I have been wondering about them for quite a while as part of my project to understand how restaurants developed.</div><div style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">We assume that restaurants will have restrooms for their customers today, but when did they become commonplace? And when did restaurants make an effort to specifically accommodate women with separate toilets? I am still not 100% sure about the answers.</div><div style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Researching the history of sanitary facilities in restaurants has proved to be very difficult, starting with what terms to search for. Even today both “bathroom” and “restroom” are somehow inadequate. Yet restroom is better to capture the historical fact that those restaurants that had facilities for women usually were outfitted with more than toilets and sinks. They also had space – and many still do – where women could take care of little chores such as repairing their hairdos, or simply rest. [restroom shown below, ca. 1920s]</div><div style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesroomwv.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img alt="ladiesroomWV" border="0" class="yiv9164797945size-large yiv9164797945wp-image-5664 " src="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesroomwv.jpg?w=560" style="-ms-overflow-x: auto; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; min-height: auto; padding: 4px;" /></a><br /> Prior to the 1860s, most public toilets were outdoors, behind saloons and restaurants, and the same was true of private dwellings. Flush toilets were quite rare in the United States until the 1880s, according to Suellen Hoy’s 1995 book Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness. Outhouses were commonplace&nbsp; throughout the 19th century and well into the 1930s in homes in rural areas and poor neighborhoods.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12488" style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The earliest ladies’ restroom I’ve found in a restaurant was in an elegant Chicago hotel. It’s likely that other hotels were similarly equipped, even though hotel bedrooms with private bathrooms were rare.&nbsp; According to a story in 1864, the Chicago restaurant welcomed women diners and invited them to simply “call in for a rest, without intrusion, or being thought an intruder.” “Every provision has been made for the convenience of ladies,” the story said, “and a toilet-room specially apportioned to their use.” This would have been welcome news to women at a time when public accommodations for them were sorely lacking.<br /><a href="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesroomcincinnati1878.jpg" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12491" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img alt="LadiesroomCincinnati1878" border="0" class="yiv9164797945size-medium yiv9164797945wp-image-5665 " id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12490" src="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesroomcincinnati1878.jpg?w=300" style="-ms-overflow-x: auto; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both; float: right; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 1em; max-width: 100%; min-height: auto; padding: 4px;" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12489" style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The restaurants that had toilets and restrooms for women seem to have been the more substantial ones that enjoyed prominence in their communities, as was often true of restaurants in leading hotels. So it was surprising to discover that an inexpensive lunch room, Cincinnati’s Alderney Dairy, had a toilet room for women in 1878.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12534" style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Though still rare, the number of ladies’ rooms in restaurants grew in the 1880s with the spread of indoor plumbing and city sewers. According to a story from 1889, restrooms in fashionable restaurants were “sumptuously furnished” with velvet couches, floor to ceiling mirrors, and marble basins. Perfumes, face powders, rouges, lotions, ivory brushes and combs, as well as hat pins were supplied.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12539" style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Yet, to put the lavish restroom described above into context, the supply of ladies’ rooms in restaurants and offices was still inadequate in the 1890s. In 1891 a restaurant in Portland ME felt justified to advertise that it had “the finest Ladies’ room east of Boston,” a considerable area. Often tall office buildings were constructed with ladies’ rooms only on the top floor. Even though women were increasingly taking jobs as clerical workers in offices, developers did not want to give up income-earning space to facilities for women on each floor. (Men, on the other hand, were supplied with small closets with a urinal-sink on each floor.)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12531" style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesrestroom1930charlottenc.jpg" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12530" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img alt="ladiesrestroom1930CharlotteNC" border="0" class="yiv9164797945size-full yiv9164797945wp-image-5666 " id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12529" src="https://victualling.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ladiesrestroom1930charlottenc.jpg?w=461" style="-ms-overflow-x: auto; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; min-height: auto; padding: 4px;" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468259016395_12518" style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Although the 1890s is often cited as the decade in which indoor plumbing took huge leaps, it is notable that restaurants continued to advertise ladies’ rest rooms throughout the 1920s [above advertisement, 1930], indicating that it had not yet become something that could be taken for granted despite the increase in women going to restaurants.</div></div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-60810935082661523082016-06-20T17:07:00.000-07:002016-06-20T17:10:23.759-07:00Tommy's Joint/Tommy's Place<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a class="image" href="http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=File:Jeannie-Sullivan-%26-Tommy-Vasu-far-rt.Taken-at-Mona%27s-.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Jeannie-Sullivan-&amp;-Tommy-Vasu-far-rt.Taken-at-Mona's-.jpg" src="http://www.foundsf.org/images/f/f2/Jeannie-Sullivan-%26-Tommy-Vasu-far-rt.Taken-at-Mona%27s-.jpg" height="325" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeannie Sullivan &amp; Tommy Vasu (far right) taken at Mona’s. </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #e06666;">Tommy's Joint (Later known as Tommy's Place)</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: 299 Broadway (1948-1952), 529 Broadway (1952-1954), San Francisco, California, USA</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened: 1948</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Closed: 1954</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Tommy's, along with <a href="http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2011/03/monas-440-club.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">Mona's</span></a><span style="color: #e06666;">,</span>&nbsp;was&nbsp;one&nbsp;of the classic lesbian bars of that era. For some reason, I just never got around to posting on Tommy's earlier. Remedying that now. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">From <a href="http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Before_the_Castro:_North_Beach,_a_Gay_Mecca"><span style="color: #e06666;">Before the Castro: North Beach, a Gay Mecca</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: #666666;">by Dick Boyd:</span> </span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: black;">Tommy’s Joint, 299 Broadway, 1948 to 1952, Tommy’s Place, 529 Broadway, 1952 to 1954</span></b><span style="color: black;"> (Now the Garden of Eden) </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Tommy Vasu was the first known lesbian to legally own a bar in San Francisco. When out on the town she dressed like a man in double-breasted suits, wide tie and a fedora hat. She used the men’s room, had a beautiful blond girlfriend and loved to gamble. In short, she was a risk taker. She often came into Pierre’s for high stakes prearranged liar’s dice games with artist/entrepreneur Walter Keane. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">The 299 Broadway site was where businessmen from the nearby financial district could find a willing hooker out of sight of prying eyes at places like Paoli’s. Stevedores from the docks close by also partook of the hookers on paydays. The hookers were the girlfriends of the butches who hung out there. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Adjoining Tommy’s Place was 12 Adler (now Specs) accessible by a back staircase. It was a lesbian pick-up rendezvous. Upstairs was entertainment pretty much by whoever cared to perform. During a purge of gay bars in the early 50’s, 12 Adler lost its liquor license in what appeared to outsiders as a set-up. Drugs were found taped to the drain under the sink in the ladies room. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Tommy ran the Broadway Parking concession and was around Broadway until the mid 60’s. Tommy’s high maintenance blond was a heroin addict and Tommy became a dealer to supply her needs. She got busted and sent to Tehachapi where she was murdered shortly after her release.</span> <br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">From</span> <a href="http://ebar.com/bartab/bartabcolumns.php?sec=nightlife&amp;id=56"><span style="color: #e06666;">It's a Raid</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;">by Michael Flanagan:</span> <br /><div class="articleimage left large"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://ebar.com/images/articles/02_BarBusts7_Tommys-GraceMiller-atBar_2614_opt.jpg" height="320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="312" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>Bartender Grace Miller (left) at </div><div>Tommy's Place before it was raided. </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></div><b><span style="color: black;">Tommy's Place &amp; 12 Adler</span></b><br /><span style="color: black;"> Spec Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (12 Saroyan Place) is on the alleyway (formerly Adler Street) across from City Lights. A colorful North Beach bar with enough bric-a-brac and curios on the walls to keep you entertained for hours, it's also full of North Beach characters. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">But in the 1950s it was a lesbian bar, owned by the openly lesbian Tommy Vasu (and attached to Tommy's Place on 529 Broadway, now the Garden of Eden strip club, by a back stairs). The bars were the site of a sensational raid that resulted in a trial and months of hysteria in San Francisco.</span> <br /><div class="articleimage right large"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://ebar.com/images/articles/02_BarBusts8_Clipping_2614_opt.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>A newspaper clipping of the </div><div>Tommy's Place and 12 Adler Place busts. </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></div><br /><span style="color: black;">Boyd's </span><i><span style="color: black;">Wide Open Town</span></i><span style="color: black;"> puts it this way: "...when Tommy's Place was raided on 8 September 1954, it was part of a much larger police agenda. Because the arrests involved a handful of underage girls, the event escalated into a multifaceted investigation into juvenile delinquency that fleshed out the ostensible connection between organized 'sex deviates' and the corruption of minors." Two bartenders and a patron, Jessie Joseph Winston, were put on trial. Winston and bartender Grace Miller served jail time and both bars were shut down.</span> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=20158.905;wap2"><span style="color: #e06666;">Dave Cullen</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;">provides even more details on the 1954 raid:</span> <br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Sept. 8, 1954 - Tommy's Place (a lesbian bar in San Francisco) is raided after an article in the S.F. Examiner about the 'marked influx of homosexuals' into San Francisco.&nbsp; Because the arrests involved a number of underage girls there was an investigation into connections between 'sex deviants' and the corruption of minors.&nbsp; There were accusations of benzedrene and barbituate use and that the girls were 'taught to smoke marijuana.'&nbsp; Two bar owners were arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.&nbsp; Another bar owner was not arrested, but her name and address were printed in the paper.&nbsp; The raid led to a Grand Jury investigation and a U.S. Senate sobcommittee hearing.&nbsp; The young women involved were forced to publicly testify at the hearings and eventually the two owners were convicted of serving alcohol to a minor and served six months in prison.&nbsp; Mr. Jesse Winston, an African-American man who was arrested for furnishing marijuana to a minor and possession of marijuana was sentenced to one to 20 years in San Quentin.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Wide-Open Town </span>by Nan Alamilla Boyd also has several passages on Tommy's--too many to&nbsp;quote here. ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-75955194591586887822016-06-17T09:50:00.002-07:002016-06-22T09:11:25.233-07:00Shakespeare's <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-ved="0ahUKEwjhmNWuwa_NAhXMGh4KHeI7BM0QjRwIBw" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjhmNWuwa_NAhXMGh4KHeI7BM0QjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edmontonmapsheritage.ca%2Flocation%2Freeds-china-gift-shop%2F&amp;bvm=bv.124272578,d.dmo&amp;psig=AFQjCNGuordJqmFpxq7Ddr_ciA3nvlE7Ew&amp;ust=1466268277701285" id="irc_mil" jsaction="mousedown:irc.rl;keydown:irc.rlk;irc.il;" style="border-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" src="http://www.edmontonmapsheritage.ca/uploads/cache/a3/da/a3da31277a077e9648278944a89830db.jpg" height="202" id="irc_mi" style="margin-top: 128px;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edmonton (1980s)</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-image: none;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Shakespeare's</span></div><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada</span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened/Closed: 1990s</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">Shakespeare's is one of those lesbian bars that once existed, but there is so little information (readily) available on it, it might as well be from ancient times.</span><br /><br />The ONLY reference to this lesbian bar I can find is a list that Queer Edmonton keeps called <a href="http://www.yegpride.ca/places.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">Yeg's Gay Club Past</span></a>:<br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span id="u9700-85">SHAKESPEARE'S</span><span id="u9700-86"> (199?-199?)</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;">In the mid-'90s Shakespeare's was a downtown <span id="u9700-89">Edmonton lesbian bar</span>. (10805-105 Avenue).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">The only other lesbian bar listed is Secrets, which became Prism Bar and Grill, which became the Junction Bar &amp; Eatery. We've posted on that place <a href="http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2011/10/prism-bar-and-grill.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">here</span></a>. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;">By an interesting coincidence, we have also posted on a place called the <a href="http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2014/11/shakespearean-inn-ladies-cafe.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">Shakespeare Inn Ladies Café</span></a>, which existed in Boston in the early 1900s. Most of what we know&nbsp;about that place is that men tried to crash it, which just goes to show that nothing is really new in the history of womyn's space. Maybe all the "queer theorists" should try to base a theoretical analysis on the actual historical record for once, instead of just making up stuff.</span>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-14379328303038286672016-06-11T16:58:00.000-07:002016-06-11T17:06:17.290-07:00Women-only cars on Chicago CTA?<i>That this conversation is even taking place in the USA is fascinating. Liberals have told us for years that these things can't be done (that's discriminatory!) and shouldn't be done, because, you know, we need more (male) education! And this women-only thing&nbsp;is only done in "backwards" countries! Oh, and Not All Men Are Like That (NAMALT)!</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Uh huh. </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>And that's when it was brought up at all, which was almost never. It was practically taboo to even bring up the topic for discussion. </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Adult males need to be taught that it's not nice to rape or grope women? Frankly if they never got the message growing up, I doubt they're going to get it now. So let's looks into real-life solutions that help women now. </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>And isn't it paradoxical that as womyn's spaces that used to seem non-controversial and benign--restrooms, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters--are increasingly threatened with elimination, we're seeing a RESURGENCE of interest in women-only public transportation options because of, shhh, male violence. The same thing we're not allowed to talk about when it comes to male voyeurs, cross-dressers, pedophiles and the like invading restrooms. </i><br /><br />From <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/women-only-el-cars-cta-harassment-prevention/Content?oid=21742420"><span style="color: #e06666;">Chicago Reader</span></a>: <br /><br />April 12, 2016<br /><b><br /></b><b><span style="color: black;">Could woman-only el cars prevent sexual harassment on the CTA? </span></b><br /><b><span style="color: black;"> It's worked in Mumbai and Tokyo, but the CTA says education is a better strategy.</span></b><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">By John Greenfield @greenfieldjohn </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Last month, in the wake of hundreds of reported sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in Cologne, a German commuter train line announced it would offer railcars reserved for women and children. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Crowded transit systems in Japan, Indonesia, India, Egypt, Mexico, and Brazil already feature women-only rail cars in order to prevent harassment and assaults. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">In response to that news, last week NPR commentator Rhitu Chatterjee wrote glowingly of the ladies' cars in her hometown of Delhi. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"It would be wonderful if men learned to accept women's presence in public spaces without feeling the need to harass them," Chatterjee wrote. "But until they do, the women's car is one good way for us to assert our right to public spaces." </span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div><img alt="Indonesian women board a women-only carriage of a commuter train on the outskirt of Jakarta, Indonesia. - IRWIN FEDRIANSYAH/AP" src="http://media1.fdncms.com/chicago/imager/u/blog/21742989/fob-transit-women-train-indonesia-900.jpg?cb=1460412539" height="289" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Indonesian women board a women-only carriage of a </div><div style="text-align: center;">commuter train on the outskirt of Jakarta, Indonesia.</div><li class="imageCredit"><div style="text-align: center;">Irwin Fedriansyah/AP </div></li></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: black;">Her op-ed got me thinking about whether female-only cars might be a strategy to combat sexual intimidation and violence on the CTA. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">In 2015 there were eight reported sexual assaults on the CTA—a category that includes everything from groping to rape—according to spokesman Jeff Tolman. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">He characterized that as "extremely few instances," considering that 516 million rides were taken last year. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">While lesser offenses often aren't reported to the CTA or police, stories female friends and colleagues shared with me by for this article suggest that inappropriate behavior is all too common on the system. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Jane, a 43-year-old urban planner (who like many women I spoke to asked that we not use her real name), reported that men have catcalled and exposed themselves to her on the el on multiple occasions. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Alice, a 53-year-old legal assistant, told me she's tall and assertive enough to intimidate would-be offenders, but has petite friends who've endured so much harassment that they only ride the train alone at rush hour, or not at all. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">One of them is Blanca Robledo-Atwood, a Colombian-born graphic designer who's four-feet-11. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">One evening she was riding the Red Line when a tall, beefy guy sat down next to her and whispered in her ear, "You are so beautiful—I want to be your friend." </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">After trying in vain to ignore his advances, she spoke loudly to him in Spanish, which he didn't seem to understand. "He got embarrassed and tried to hide," she recalls. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Still, she feared the man would follow her off the train. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">After that she stopped riding the el by herself at night. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">The man who tried to hit on 34-year-old nonprofit worker Ellen on the Blue Line's Jackson platform at 2 AM was less polite. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">After she made it clear she wasn't interested, he snarled, "Well I'm a nice guy, but I hope your boyfriend continues to beat and rape you." </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Ellen held her ground in the ensuing shouting match, but she now thinks that was unwise.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"I could have gotten stabbed that night-who knows," she says. After that she largely switched to commuting by bicycle. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"I get high anxiety sometimes when I enter CTA trains, no matter how much I think I'm a strong and badass woman, and it pisses me off to feel that way." </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Brittany, 28, survived a sexual assault that occurred while she was riding the Blue Line out to Oak Park on a Tuesday afternoon in May 2014. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">As the train crawled through a slow zone west of the Kedzie-Homan station, a large man approached her in the otherwise empty car. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">The assailant held her down and attempted to rape her. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">She was able to snap his photo as he fled. (A few months later police apprehended the man, who'd been attacking other women for years, she says. He's now doing jail time.) </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Brittany rides the el less often nowadays, and when she does she tries to sit in the front car, with the driver. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"I still have major issues taking trains," she says. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Brittany and a few other women I spoke with thought women-only cars could be an effective way to address harassment and assault on the CTA, if the policy could be properly enforced. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"I've heard enough of these stories that I think many women would welcome a female-only car," said the legal assistant. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">But there's skepticism as to whether such an approach is necessary in Chicago, even from transportation experts who take harassment seriously. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">“Putting men in a train car separate from me will not stop them from harassing me when we exit the train.” —Courage Project founder Kara Crutcher­ </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Lauren Dean is an urban planning student at UIC who since 2011 has been doing research on the ladies' compartments of the Mumbai railway system. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Gender-separated cars are crucial in India, she says, because "the crowding on the train makes it very easy for male commuters to grope or rub up against women who don't have any means of escape and often can't actually identify their assailant in such a huge crowd." </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">In Chicago, street harassment is "absolutely an issue for female commuters," Dean says. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">But she adds that the physical space on the Mumbai trains is totally different—it's common for 14 to 16 passengers to be crammed into a single square meter of floor space. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"Even at its most crowded, the CTA doesn't handle that kind of crushing passenger density," Dean says. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">The CTA's Tolman notes that 23,000 security cameras have been installed throughout the system in recent years to serve as a crime deterrent and aid police in catching offenders. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">But he dismisses the possibility of female el compartments in Chicago by pointing out that "no transit system in the United States uses women-only cars." </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Instead, the agency is addressing the problem through a new informational campaign. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"If It's Unwanted, It's Harassment" warns would-be offenders that abusive behavior will not be tolerated. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">The centerpiece of the campaign is a new line of rail and bus advertisements encouraging riders who see a fellow passenger being hassled to speak up, contact CTA personnel via an onboard intercom, or call 911 if there's an immediate safety threat. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">But some of the credit for the new initiative should go to the Courage Campaign, a grassroots organization launched in 2014 by Uptown resident Kara Crutcher to fight harassment on the CTA. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Last year the group successfully lobbied the agency to shift its focus from simply asking victims to report incidents to preventing abusive behavior by raising awareness of the problem. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"We're happy to see a couple of CTA ads up regarding harassment," Crutcher said. "It is definitely a step in the right direction. . . . Personally, I hope that we can work with them to produce more educational ads, but we shall see." </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">As for female-only cars, while Crutcher says these could provide a safe space for women suffering from post-harassment PTSD, she argues they're a Band-Aid solution that doesn't get to the root of the problem. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">"A cultural shift must occur," she says. "We must recognize and respect each other everywhere, but especially in these public spaces. . . . Putting men in a train car separate from me will not stop them from harassing me when we exit the train. But education, antistreet harassment advocacy, and courage might."</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">John Greenfield edits the transportation news website Streetsblog Chicago.</span> ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-23083170780705675372016-06-06T13:08:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:23:16.624-07:00Glastonbury festival's "The Sisterhood"<span style="color: #666666;">As genuine women-only space is stripped away--even places as seemingly innocuous as bathrooms and locker rooms--we seem to be seeing mainstream, male-dominated culture introducing a faux or "lite" version of womyn's space, as if to confuse women further.</span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">An example of this is the Glastonbury festival, where they have oh so thoughtfully set aside a little corner for the ladies. Ladies, of course, meaning anybody who at that particular moment can say they "identify" as a lady. And at a&nbsp;festival where the leadership does not appear to be identifiably female at all. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Meaning it's all bullsh**--completely&nbsp;meaningless, anemic, and non-threatening to men. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Of course, some men won't be in on the joke and will object anyway. Which is roughly 90% of the comments following the article.&nbsp;Men just freaking out over&nbsp;one damn tent that's "women-only" for just a few days. The rest are getting the wink and the nudge. Just throw on a wig and you're in. </span><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/06/glastonbury-2016-sisterhood-women-only-venue"><span style="color: #e06666;">Glastonbury 2016 to introduce women-only venue</span></a></strong><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span><br /><div class="tonal__standfirst u-cf"><div class="gs-container"><div class="content__main-column"><div class="content__standfirst " data-component="standfirst" data-link-name="standfirst"><span style="color: black;">The Sisterhood, in the festival’s Shangri-La zone, will offer live music, workshops and DIY classes to female festivalgoers</span></div></div></div></div><div class="content__main tonal__main tonal__main--tone-news"><div class="gs-container"><div class="content__main-column content__main-column--article js-content-main-column "><div class="js-sport-tabs football-tabs content__mobile-full-width"></div><figure class="media-primary media-content() " data-component="image" data-media-id="8ffffb2077a1f9c5ce88010adda5c80ab8fc8983" id="img-1" itemprop="associatedMedia image" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><u> </u><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Sisterhood, Glastonbury festival will open in 2016. " class="maxed responsive-img" height="240" itemprop="contentUrl" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8ffffb2077a1f9c5ce88010adda5c80ab8fc8983/302_0_3652_2191/master/3652.jpg?w=620&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2a9bdb74f74052eae2000ab89c4426e2" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Sisterhood, Glastonbury festival will open in 2016. <br />Photograph: Tabatha Fireman/Redferns via Getty Images </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="u-responsive-ratio" style="padding-bottom: 59.99%;"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><span style="color: black;">The 2016 Glastonbury festival will feature its first ever women-only venue. Called The Sisterhood, it has been described by the organisers as a “revolutionary clubhouse” <strong>open to “all people who identify as women.” </strong><strong>The Sisterhood</strong>&nbsp;will be an “i<strong>ntersectional, queer, trans and disability-inclusive space” and will be staffed entirely by people who identify as female</strong>, from performers to security staff.&nbsp;In a statement, the venue’s organisers said: “The producers of The Sisterhood believe that women-only spaces are necessary in a world that is still run by and designed to benefit mainly men. Oppression against women continues in various manifestations around the world today, in different cultural contexts." They continued: “In the UK, the gender pay gap in the workplace, cuts to domestic violence services and sex worker rights are current talking points that highlight this issue. Sisterhood seeks to provide a secret space for women to connect, network, share their stories, have fun and learn the best way to support each other in our global struggle to end oppression against women and all marginalised people, while showcasing the best and boldest female talent in the UK and beyond.” You’ll be able to find The Sisterhood in the festival’s Shangri-La zone, where there will be live music, DJs and workshops on intersectionality, diversity and inclusion. There will also be daily dance classes and, surely best of all, DIY power tools workshops with carpenter Rhi Jean.</span></div></figure></div></div></div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-38380118304174162562016-05-25T08:03:00.000-07:002016-06-10T07:18:03.716-07:00Women-only "pink carriages" on Australian trains<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/8ea5254cb2c89a64d6646d86367fde7a" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Female commuters wait to leave Tokyo's Shinjuku station in Keio private railway’s &amp;quot;Women Only&amp;quot; carriage." border="0" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/8ea5254cb2c89a64d6646d86367fde7a" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="caption-text">Female commuters wait to leave Tokyo's Shinjuku station </span><br /><span class="caption-text">in Keio private railway’s "Women Only" carriage. </span><span class="image-source"><em>Source:</em>AFP</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-image: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is really major.&nbsp;For years, we have been told that women-only public transportation facilities were silly old-fashioned things that "progressive" people neither needed nor wanted, so of course you only saw these things&nbsp;in "backwards" countries outside "the west." Insofar as crimes against women on public transportation&nbsp;are noticed at all,&nbsp;they are&nbsp;treated as a problem of (male) "education" (good luck with that!) or law enforcement. Given that I was just reading today about a woman who was raped at knifepoint on the Washington, DC metro, it doesn't seem this approach has been terribly productive.</span> <br />Interesting in that we are now seeing proposals in Germany, the UK, and Australia. So much for Queen Victoria. She's not as outmoded as the men would have you think. And given that the opposition is largely in the NAMALT (Not All Men Are Like That) category, that should tell you something. <br />And isn't it fascinating that on one hand, there is this&nbsp;emerging (if&nbsp;tacit)&nbsp;"official" recognition of the threat that males pose to women in public spaces, while at the same time, women in "the west" are being told that women-only bathrooms, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters are "bigoted" and we must give them up. </div><div class="heading"><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/womenonly-pink-carriages-idea-for-aussie-trains-causes-controversy/news-story/8377482b8b705dd2854a51d0eb0b7847">Women-only ‘pink carriages’ idea for Aussie trains causes controversy</a></span></div><div id="story"><div class="story-header"><div class="story-date"><div class="date-and-time" title="2016-04-05T02:03:00.000Z"><span class="timeago-icon"></span><span class="timeago"></span><span class="datestamp"><span style="color: black;">April 6, 2016 <span class="time">12:56pm</span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="story-body" style="border-image: none;"><div class="article-media article-media-large media-count-2 first-image-650w366h"><div class="video tab js-tab js-active-tab js-active-tab-1"><span style="color: black;"><img height="0" src="https://pixel.tcog.cp1.news.com.au/track/news/content/v1/origin:video_integrator.5lZHdsMjE6QKilkl-CfUBqR4ED7v--mo?t_product=video&amp;t_template=../video/player" style="height: 0px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; width: 0px;" width="0" /></span></div><div class="image tab-content js-tab-content"><div class="article-media article-media-large media-count-1 first-image-650w366h"><div class="image"><div class="caption"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="story-extra"><div class="author-block title-version"><div class="author-photo"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div class="author-info" style="border-image: none;"><span class="author-name" style="color: black;">Emma Reynolds</span></div></div><span style="color: black;"><img height="0" src="https://pixel.tcog.cp1.news.com.au/track/component/author/f927af19cabb9d72384796ba74be9d13?t_product=tcog&amp;t_template=s3/ncatemp/desktop/includes/content-2/authorBlockSingle" style="height: 0px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; width: 0px;" width="0" /> </span><br /><div class="share-tools-heading"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div></div><div class="story-intro"><strong><span style="color: black;">A CALL for women-only “pink carriages” has caused uproar as passengers and train operators weigh into the debate.</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">Rail, Tram and Bus Union national secretary Bob Nanva says public transport needs to be safer at night and is proposing a trial of all-female carriages, seen elsewhere in the world.</span><span style="color: black;">﻿</span></div><div style="border-image: none;"><span style="color: black;">He is proposing a trial of Safe Carriages in NSW, with carriages installed with extra distress buttons, on-board CCTV and more regular checks by staff.</span></div><span style="color: black;">“Since September 2012, there have been 2859 criminal offences against women on public transport, including almost 19 sexual offences against women on NSW bus, tram and train networks every month,” he told news.com.au.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“A survey of NSW commuters a few years ago found that 64 per cent of women felt unsafe on public transport after dark. But this is not just a NSW problem — commuters across the country have told us that something must be done.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“Women and children who travel on public transport after dark should have the option of a safe haven where they can feel safe without having to worry if the bloke leering at them from across the aisle is a potential predator.”</span><br /><div class="module image-module module-image-650w488h"><div class="module-content"><div class="image-block image-650w488h">﻿﻿<span style="color: black;">Radio presenter Ben Fordham from 2GB told <i>The Today Show</i> this morning: “It makes me feel really, really weird, the idea that women need to be protected from someone like me.</span></div></div></div><span style="color: black;">“There are lunatics out there who are women and who are men who go around assaulting people and doing all sorts of disgusting things to people, but why don’t we just focus on the perpetrators?</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“I don’t think it makes sense ... What kind of message does it send to the kind of behaviour you can carry out in other parts of the train?”</span><iframe frameborder="0" height="4" id="google_ads_iframe_/5129/ndm.esc/travel//travelupdates_6" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/5129/ndm.esc/travel//travelupdates_6" scrolling="no" src="javascript:&quot;&lt;html&gt;&lt;body style='background:transparent'&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;&quot;" style="border-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; vertical-align: bottom;" title="3rd party ad content" width="4"></iframe><br /><span style="color: black;">Many commentators implied that this was victim-blaming, asking why we didn’t just introduce men-only carriages instead. “Alternatively we could just teach men that it’s not OK to harass or assault women,” tweeted Natty Longshot.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“We should be looking after everyone, it shouldn’t have to come to that,” added Christine Mincham.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“Has the whole world gone mad or just Australia?” asked Trevor Blight.</span><br /><div style="border-image: none;"><span style="color: black;">In fact, sex-segregation is already on offer on trains in India, Iran, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. Other nations have female-only sections on cars and metro lines.</span></div><div style="border-image: none;"><span style="color: black;">A railway line in central Germany last week attracted controversy when it announced the introduction of safe carriages reserved for women and children, beside the guard’s office, according to <i>Breitbart</i>.</span></div><span style="color: black;">The suggestion was also floated late last year by UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who said in a statement that it was “unacceptable that many women and girls adapt their daily lives in order to avoid being harassed”.</span><br /><div style="border-image: none;"><span style="color: black;">The last women-only carriage in Britain was removed in 1977.</span></div><div class="module image-module module-image-650w488h"><div class="module-content"><div class="image-block image-650w488h"><div class="caption"><span style="color: black;">The RTBU’s Mr Nanva insisted the idea was not about forcing women into ghettos. “Of course, we want every carriage to be a safe carriage, and no passenger should have to put up with violent and anti-social behaviour,” he said.</span></div></div></div></div><span style="color: black;">“That’s why the starting point for safer public transport must be a stronger staff presence across the public transport network — on trains and at stations.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“But if a trial of Safe Carriages helps people to feel safer and more confident about catching the train, then it should also be part of the response to sexual violence on public transport.”</span><br /><span style="color: black;">A spokesman for Sydney Trains said: “The safety and security of our customers and staff is the top priority for Sydney Trains.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“Our customer satisfaction survey shows that Sydney Trains’ customers are feeling safer at train stations with an increase of 11 percentage points from November 2012 to November 2015.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“We work closely with the NSW Police Transport Command, who are responsible for crime prevention across the rail network.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“There are thousands of CCTV cameras on our trains and at our stations, to help improve customer safety and deter crime. We also have emergency help points installed on our newer trains, which customers can use to report any safety concerns to the train guard.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">“There are also more than 750 emergency help points installed at our stations.”</span><br /><span style="color: black;">The carriage nearest to the guard on Sydney Trains is already marked with a blue light.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">The idea for the “pink carriages” was previously put forward by the transport union and NSW Rape Crisis Centre in 2013.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">The outraged reaction online suggests it may not have any more success this time round.</span></div></div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-11270076404054581142016-05-23T10:31:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:24:46.901-07:00mulans.com<h1><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;"><span id="ReportIDname">mulans.com</span></span></h1><h1><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China</span></h1><h1><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">Opened: May 2015</span></h1><h1><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">Closed: Still open?</span></h1><span style="color: #666666;">Not a lost space, but I don't consider that a hard and fast rule. Sometimes it's good to note up and coming womyn's spaces. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666;">Contrary to what some may think, women's banks are an old idea made new again. We've posted on experiments in this area dating back to at least the beginning of the 20th century. For example, see<span style="color: #e06666;"> </span><a href="http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2015/12/berlin-womens-bank.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">here</span> </a>for information on the Berlin Women's Bank (1909-1915).</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/news/china/1505/484-1.htm">http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/news/china/1505/484-1.htm</a></span><br /><h1><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Shenzhen to Be Home to China's First Women-Only Online Bank</span></h1><div class="fun"><span id="ReportIDIssueTime" style="color: black;">May 6, 2015</span><span id="ReportIDLocus"></span><br /><div class="fun-right"><div class="bshare-custom" style="float: right; margin-right: 5px;"><div class="bsPromo bsPromo2"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><a class="bshare-email" href="javascript:void(0);" id="emails" title="Mail to friends"><span style="color: black;"></span></a><br /></div><!-- <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://static.bshare.cn/b/buttonLite.js#style=-1&amp;uuid=2ddd3036-1080-4a31-a715-a180bd963380&amp;pophcol=1&amp;lang=zh"></script><script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://static.bshare.cn/b/bshareC0.js"></script> --><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div class="auth"><span class="bj"><span style="color: black;">Editor:&nbsp;<span id="ReportIDeditmember">Kiki Liu</span></span></span></div><span id="ReportIDtext"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><table align="left" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 300px;"><tbody><tr><td><input alt="" src="http://www.womenofchina.cn/res/womenofchina/1505/15050480.jpg" style="height: 178px; width: 300px;" type="image" /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color: black;">The logo of Shenzhen-based Mulan Investment Company, China's first investment and financial platform serving only female entrepreneurs [huodongxing.com]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: black;">Shenzhen, a&nbsp;coastal&nbsp;city&nbsp;of south China's&nbsp;Guangdong&nbsp;Province, announced on May 4, 2015 the founding of China's first online bank serving only women, after establishing the first female O2O (Online to Offline) financial platform — mulans.com — in September 2014.<br />Organized by the mulans.com financial platform, a conference centered on young pioneers was held by around 300 young entrepreneurs and company founders and coincided with China's Youth Day, which falls annually on May 4.<br />At the conference, the most notable agenda item was perhaps the founding of the first female online bank, named Mulan Bank after the Shenzhen-based Mulan Investment Company — the financial backbone of the new online bank.<br />According to the investment company, Mulan Bank — the first online bank of its kind in China — would provide its services only for women, especially female entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the Mulan Bank has promised to customers that its ultimate goal is to increase women's financial power with online services and consumption as their cores pillars.<br />In other words, the online bank will be rewriting a new chapter for the development of female entrepreneurs.<br />Actually, the investment company was originally founded as a pioneering organization focusing on women's start-ups, investments and financial management — a gathering place for female entrepreneurs and founders of great power or fame.<br />"We have embraced three brands based on the investment bank: Mulans, Mulan Pioneering and Investment, and then the Mulan Bank. That helps the investment bank to have far-reaching influence in China," explained Liu Aimin, the co-founder of the investment bank.</span></span>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-44513125656899312002016-05-18T11:50:00.000-07:002016-05-18T11:59:45.482-07:00Midway College<div style="border-image: none;"><a 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style="height: 186px; margin-top: 0px; width: 211px;" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #e06666;">Midway College</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: Midway, Kentucky, USA</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened: 1847</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Closed: 2016</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">The die-off of women's colleges continues. And once again, how alumnae feel about it is ignored. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span>From <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/05/17/midway-u-will-become-completely-coeducational"><span style="color: #e06666;">Inside Higher Ed</span></a>: </div><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Midway U Will Become Completely Coeducational</strong> </span><br /><div class="panel-separator"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div class="panel-pane pane-custom pane-2"><div class="pane-content"><div class="clear"><span style="color: black;">May 17, 2016 </span></div></div></div><div class="panel-separator"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div><div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body"><div class="pane-content"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><span style="color: black;">Midway University announced Monday that it will admit men to all programs. The Kentucky institution was founded as a women's college and already admits men to online, graduate and evening programs. The change will admit men to residential undergraduate programs that have until now remained for women only. The announcement from the university, which was until 2015 known as Midway College, noted the difficulty of attracting young women to single-sex colleges, and said that the undergraduate programs need more students.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">On the college's Facebook page, many alumnae criticized the move. Wrote one: "As a second-generation Midway College graduate, I am very sad to hear that the Midway I knew and loved will never be the same again. And I am afraid this is not a good change."</span></div></div></div></div></div>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5753655419131163318.post-53342618592756513782016-05-18T10:37:00.000-07:002016-05-18T11:37:19.304-07:00College of St. Elizabeth<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://image.nj.com/home/njo-media/width620/img/morris_impact/photo/20368792-mmmain.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="CSE 2016 graduation" border="0" class="adv-photo-large" src="http://image.nj.com/home/njo-media/width620/img/morris_impact/photo/20368792-mmmain.png" data-original="http://media.nj.com/morris_impact/photo/20368792-mmmain.png" data-position="article-main" height="265" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center">Students gather in the Holy Family Chapel on the campus </div><div align="center">of the College of Saint Elizabeth </div><div align="center">for a blessing before the 114th Commencement exercises. </div><div align="center">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(</em><em>Courtesy of the College of St. Elizabeth)</em></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-image: none;"><span style="color: #e06666;">College of St. Elizabeth</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Location: Florham, New Jersey, USA</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Opened: 1899</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Closed: 2016</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">And still, the number of women's colleges dwindles to just a few survivors....</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #666666;">From <a href="http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2016/05/college_of_st_elizabeth_graduates_final_class_as_a.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">NJCom</span></a>: </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">FLORHAM PARK&nbsp;— The College of St. Elizabeth's 2016 commencement on Saturday graduated the school's last class as an all-women's college.</span></div><div class="entry_widget_large entry_widget_right" id="asset-20368905"><span style="color: black;">Starting this fall, the only remaining all women's college in New Jersey will become co-ed.</span></div><span style="color: black;">Three hundred seventy-eight graduates including doctoral students in educational leadership received their degrees at the 114th Commencement on Saturday.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Col. Ingrid A. Parker, garrison commander at Picatinny Arsenal, gave the commencement address in which she challenged the Class of 2016 to make a difference in the world.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">"As you leave the College of Saint Elizabeth today, you take with you your education and your place in society, as one of the fortunate people, who were able to attain a college degree," she said. "The first thing is I encourage you to be strong, be audacious, and have a little tenacity. Go into your career fearlessly. Look for people who will help you along the way, you will need a network of support."</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Maame Quainoo and Meredith Palmer, both of the Class of 2016, were selected from among their peers to deliver the student addresses.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Awards of Distinction were conferred upon the following students: Marissa Gioffre of Morristown received the Sister Elizabeth Ann Maloney Award; Marlyne Lamour of Maplewood received the Sister Jacqueline Burns Award; Sister Florence Akhimien of Ibadan, Nigeria received the Sister Elizabeth Houlihan Memorial Award; and Ashley Pledger of Randolph received the Hildegarde Marie Mahoney Award for General Excellence.</span>ANONYMOUSnoreply@blogger.com0